• Alternate forms: 亁, 干

• Radical: 乙+10

• Stroke number: 11

• Stroke order:

• Four-Corner System: 4841₇

• Cangjie input: 十十人弓 (JJON)

• Graphical Significance and Origin:

• Common Meaning
  1. dry; first hexagram
  2. warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male)

Chinese Hanzi

• Romanizations
  • Mandarin:
    • Pinyin: gān (gan1), qián (qian2)
    • Wade-Giles: kan¹, ch'ien²
    • Yale:
  • Cantonese
    • Jyutping:
    • Penkyamp:
    • Yale: gon1, kin4

• Style: Traditional Chinese
  • Simplified equivalent: 干

• Other info:

Japanese kanji

• Readings
  • On: かん (kan), けん (ken), げん (gen)
  • Kun: かわく (kawaku), かわかす (kawakasu), いぬい (inui)

• Other info:

Korean Hanja

• Pronunciation: 간, 건

• Romanization
  • The 2000 South Korean Revised: gan, geon
  • McCune-Reischauer: kan, kŏn

Dictionary Information

• KangXi: 0084.250
• Morobashi: 00204
• Dae Jaweon: 0172.010
• Hanyu Da Zidian: 10056.100

Technical Information

• Unicode:
  • Hex: 4E7E
  • Decimal: 20094
• Big5:
  • Hex: B0AE
  • Decimal: 45230